Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.9~rc2-1 Severity: important Hi,
I've updated from 6.3.8-11 to 6.3.9~rc2-1 fetchmail does start after the upgrade. I've tried to purge everything and reinstall: --->8----->8--------- Unpacking fetchmail (from .../fetchmail_6.3.9~rc2-1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up fetchmail (6.3.9~rc2-1) ... Adding system user `fetchmail' (UID 113) ... Adding new user `fetchmail' (UID 113) with group `nogroup' ... Creating home directory `/var/lib/fetchmail' ... usermod: no changes Starting mail retriever agent: fetchmail failed! --->8----->8--------- Then I tried to manually start it with "set -x" in /etc/init.d/fetchmail, I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % sudo /etc/init.d/fetchmail start ~ + PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin + DAEMON=/usr/bin/fetchmail + USER=fetchmail + OPTIONS= + CONFFILE=/etc/fetchmailrc + PIDFILE=/var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid + UIDL=/var/lib/fetchmail/.fetchmail-UIDL-cache + '[' '!' -e /etc/fetchmailrc ']' + test -f /etc/default/fetchmail + . /etc/default/fetchmail ++ START_DAEMON=yes + OPTIONS=' -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid' + '[' '!' xyes = xyes -a '!' start = stop ']' + test -f /usr/bin/fetchmail + . /lib/lsb/init-functions ++ FANCYTTY= ++ '[' -e /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh ']' ++ true + '[' start = start ']' + '[' '!' -r /etc/fetchmailrc ']' + id fetchmail + grep -qs '^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]\+daemon[[:space:]]' /etc/fetchmailrc + grep -qs -e '^[[:space:]]*OPTIONS=.*-d[[:space:]]*[[:digit:]]\+' /etc/default/fetchmail + OPTIONS=' -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid -d 300' + grep -qs '^[[:space:]]*set[[:space:]]\+no[[:space:]]\+syslog' /etc/fetchmailrc + OPTIONS=' -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid -d 300 --syslog' + '[' /var/run/fetchmail = /var/run/fetchmail ']' + '[' '!' -d /var/run/fetchmail ']' ++ stat -c '%U %a' /etc/fetchmailrc + '[' 'fetchmail 600' '!=' 'fetchmail 600' ']' + case "$1" in + test -e /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid + log_begin_msg 'Starting mail retriever agent:' fetchmail + '[' -z 'Starting mail retriever agent:' ']' + echo -n 'Starting mail retriever agent:' fetchmail Starting mail retriever agent: fetchmail+ start-stop-daemon -S -o -q -p /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid -x /usr/bin/fetchmail -u fetchmail -a /bin/su -- -c '/usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid -d 300 --syslog' fetchmail + log_end_msg 1 + '[' -z 1 ']' + log_use_fancy_output + TPUT=/usr/bin/tput + EXPR=/usr/bin/expr + '[' -t 1 ']' + '[' xxterm '!=' '' ']' + '[' xxterm '!=' xdumb ']' + '[' -x /usr/bin/tput ']' + '[' -x /usr/bin/expr ']' + /usr/bin/tput hpa 60 + /usr/bin/tput setaf 1 + '[' -z ']' + FANCYTTY=1 + case "$FANCYTTY" in + true ++ /usr/bin/tput setaf 1 + RED='' ++ /usr/bin/tput op + NORMAL='' + '[' 1 -eq 0 ']' + /bin/echo -e ' failed!' failed! The permissions of /etc/fetchmailrc are (unchanged): [EMAIL PROTECTED] % ls -l /etc/fetchmailrc -rw------- 1 fetchmail root 1158 Jun 25 11:56 /etc/fetchmailrc It works if I copy the fetchmailrc file to my home directory, change the owner, and run fetchmail from there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % fetchmail -v fetchmail: 6.3.9-rc2 querying pop.orange.fr (protocol POP3) at Wed Jun 25 12:13:47 2008: poll started Trying to connect to 80.12.242.14/110...connected. fetchmail: POP3< +OK connected to pop3 on 2a16 fetchmail: POP3> CAPA Regards Jean-Luc -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-rc8-k8-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fetchmail depends on: ii adduser 3.108 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.29 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.11-1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-10.1 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages fetchmail recommends: ii ca-certificates 20080617 Common CA certificates -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
